Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.


A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (ed. 1793)

Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.